While driving through Virginia, Ted Barton decides to take a detour through his hometown of Millgate, a sleepy little Norman Rockwell-esque hamlet. But what he finds is not at all what he expectedthe stores and houses are all different, all the street names have changed, and he doesn't recognize anybody. But things get really eerie when he checks the town's historical records... and sees that he supposedly died nearly twenty years ago. As Barton gets drawn into the mystery of the town, he soon realizes that there is more going on in Millgate than meets the eye. The strange happenings around town are bigger than Barton had ever imagined, and the fate of the world just might hang in the balance. Like an epic episode of The Twilight Zone, The Cosmic Puppetsis a page-turner thatlike the best PKD novelsaddresses some of the biggest questions of all.